Critical thinking is used to solve problems.

Creativity is used to present solution and going

5 strategies for sparking critical thinking

Implementing Strategies Students work in groups and are

presented a problem. Students use critical thinking to

solve. Students will start by doing lab

based problems and answering questions based on observations.

Students will then be solving inquiry problems which guide the labs, and yields in results that take further analyses for understanding.

5 strategies for enlightening with creativity

Implementing Strategies/Follow Up Solving problems requires that

students use creative methods towards learning the new content.

Students use creativity to present solution to the problem and new questions that could be addressed.

Students will then be given the opportunity for design and application.

Classroom Environment

1. Humor helps develop anticipation, allow students to develop the ability to find novel relationships, and develop visual imagery (Kellough & Kellough, 2011). Teacher limits providing answer to students and encourage them to collaborate towards the answer. Minimum content information is given to students. Students are expected to effectively work in group and contribute towards solving a problem.

1. Open and flexible classroom arrangement and teaching. Teacher is a facilitator and enabler who establish the overall guidelines in the classroom to promote a safe learning environment. Rubric based grading with student self-evaluation, and teacher evaluation. Less teacher talk, more learner talk. Exploration based learning. Equal teacher and student control.

Real World Application

1. Use real world essential questions that forces students to link what they are learning in the class to their world. Lower level questions should guide students towards answering the higher level thinking questions. All questions must be interesting to students.

2. Encourage students to develop their own essential questions. Encourage innovation.

Activities 2. Culminating activities which allow students the opportunity to link concepts together (Kellough & Kellough, 2011). All members in the group are important and have different roles which changes from assignment to assignment. Critical thinking and persistency is required of students.

3. Students are to start on their own, and have an internal student facilitator. Apply the skills learned during exploration.

Collaboration 3. In collaborating with students, challenging them to assist you in developing a lesson plan that is personalized and meet their needs

4. It is also important that teachers encourage students to be creative and explain their thought process

Challenge 4. When students collaborate in discovery and guided inquiry learning they are being challenged and challenging each other to formulate questions. Also what teachers can do to help students in applying, developing, creativity and critical thinking skills is inserting questions in assessments that are multiple-choice and short-explanation in nature (Kellough & Kellough).

5. to design their own experiments,

ReferencesKellough, N., & Kellough, R.D. (2011). Secondary School Teaching: A Guide to Methods and Resources (4th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.